1. .................................... is considered as the architect of t he Constitution of India.
Correct : A. dr.
2. India has adopted the Parliamentary system as found in..............
Correct : D. britain
3. since its inauguration on 26th January.............. , the Constitution India has been
successfully guiding the path and progress of India.
Correct : D. 1950
4. ......................... was instrumental in the integration of over 500 princely states into
the Indian Union.
Correct : D. vallabhbhai patel
5. .......................was elected as the president of Indian National Congress Party for its
Karachi session of 1931.
Correct : A. vallabhbhai patel
6. The constitution of India became fully operational with effect from 26th
January..........................
Correct : D. 1950
7. One of ................. key economic reforms was the introduction of the Five Years
Plan in 1951.
Correct : D. jawaharlal nehru’s
8. Jawaharlal Nehru advocated a kind of mixed economy in India.
Correct : D. . jawaharlal nehru
9. To guide India through its rapid industrialization, Nehru inaugurated the first of
India’s Soviet-style Five Year Plans in................
Correct : D. 1951
10. The ..................revolution consists of technological improvements which were
mainly adopted to increase agriculture productivity.
Correct : D. green
11. The first world was considered the..................
Correct : D. usa
12. The key person behind the Constitution of India was..................
Correct : D. sardar vallabhai patel
13. ...............was considered as part of the third world wand chose to remain neutral.
Correct : D. india
14. The Non-Cooperation Movement launched by ..................
Correct : A. gandhi
15. Jawaharlal's concept of nonalignment brought India considerable international prestige
among newly independent states.
Correct : D. jawaharlal nehru
16. In 1984, ........................was assassinated by her Sikh bodyguards.
Correct : D. indira gandhi
17. The States Reorganization Act was passed by parliament in November..............
Correct : D. 1956.
18. In India, "the Emergency" refers to a 21-month period in 1975–77 when PrimeMinister
................ unilaterally had an emergency declared across the country.
Correct : A. indira gandhi
19. Officially issued by President ................ Ahmed under Article 352(1) of the
Constitution for "internal disturbance", the Emergency was in effect from 25 June 1975 until its withdrawal on 21 March 1977.
Correct : A. fakhruddin ali
20. On June 25, ......................prime minister Indira Gandhi imposed Emergency in India
citing grave threat to her government and sovereignty of the country from both internal and external forces.
Correct : D. 1975
21. Indira Gandhi became the prime minister in January ............. and then emerged
victorious in the 1971 Lok Sabha elections.
Correct : D. 1966
22. The socialist stalwart ...................openly led a mass movement against her calling her
corrupt and autocratic.
Correct : A. jaya prakash narayan
23. The firebrand trade union leader ....................had successfully organised an all India
Railways strike bringing the public transport and economy to a halt.
Correct : A. george fernandes
24. The Emergency draft was hurriedly sent to the President of India ................who signed
it immediately.
Correct : A. fakruddin ali ahmed
25. ................ second son Sanjay Gandhi, who was just 29 years old then, took charge of
the administration and started sending opposition leaders and workers to jails across India.
Correct : C. indira gandhi's
26. .........................was elected president of the Indian National Congress in 1960.
Correct : A. indira gandhi
27. When Lal Bahadur Shastri, died in 1966, ............was appointed to the post of prime minister.
Correct : A. indira gandhi
28. After Sanjay's death, ................prepared her other son, Rajiv Gandhi for
leadership.
Correct : A. indira gandhi
29. ...................... succeeded her as the Prime Minister and led the Janata Party
government till 1980.
Correct : A. morarji desai
30. In the ................... Lok Sabha polls, Indira Gandhi returned to power and remained in
power till her assassination in 1984.
Correct : D. 1980
31. ................... started his career as the Prime Minister of independent India in 1947,
Correct : A. jawaharlal nehru
32. One of Nehru's key economic reforms was the introduction of the Five Years Plan
in........................
Correct : D. 1951.
33. Nehru's economic policies have often been considered to be .................in nature.
a) Socialist b)Communist c)Capitalist d)Utopian Socialism \34.................... was the main architect of first green revolution of India.
Correct : A. dr. m.s. swaminathan
34. Since......................., the Indian economy has pursued free market liberalisation, greater
openness in trade and increase investment in infrastructure.
Correct : D. 1991
35. The National Herald newspaper was founded by Motilal Nehru in.....................
Correct : D. allahabad
36. To deal with the anti-Sikh agitation, that followed the death of his mother,
.................signed an accord with Akali Dal president Sant Harchand Singh Longowal, on 24 July, 1985.
Correct : A. rajiv gandhi
37. The infamous Bofors scandal that still haunts the political walls of the country was
exposed during Rajiv Gandhi's reign.
Correct : A. rajiv gandhi
38. ............................is called the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms,"
Correct : D. p.v. narasimha rao
39. Soon after becoming the Prime Minister of India, .................created a Ministry of
Scientific Research and Natural Resources and actively supported the atomic energy programme for peaceful purposes.
Correct : A. jawaharlal nehru
40. Along with his cousin Pamulaparthi Sadasiva Rao, ................edited a Telugu weekly
magazine called Kakatiya Patrika from 1948 to 1955.
Correct : D. narasimha rao
41. Under the farsighted leadership of ...........the nation, the government and the public
leaders became committed to the promotion of science and technology.
Correct : A. nehru,
42. When the Indian National Congress split in 1969 ................stayed on the side of the
Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and remained loyal to her during the Emergency period (1975 - 77).
Correct : C. p.v.narasimha rao
43. Defence organization was set up in 1948, on advice ................for the scientific evolution of weapons and equipment, operational research and special studies.
Correct : A. prof. p.m.s blackett
44. ..................... is an Indian economist and politician who served as the Prime Minister of
India from 2004 to 2014.
Correct : A. manmohan singh
45. The Muslim League had been founded in Dhaka in 1906.
Correct : A. 1906
46. The economic liberalisation in India denotes the continuing financial reforms which
began since July 24,..........................
Correct : D. 1991
47. The CPM had originally split from the united CPI in 1964 on grounds of
differences over revolutionary politics, reformist parliamentary politics.
Correct : D. 1964
48. .................... was an Indian lawyer and politician who served as the Prime Minister of
India (1991–1996).
Correct : A. p.v.narasimha rao
49. ..................ascendancy to the prime minister ship was politically significant in that he
was the first holder of this office from non-Hindi-speaking south India.
Correct : A. narasimha rao’s
50. ................... is often referred to as the "Father of Indian Economic Reforms".
Correct : A. narasimha rao
51. Future Prime ministers Atal Bihari Vajpayee and Manmohan Singh continued the
economic reform policies pioneered by ......................government.
Correct : A. narasimha rao's
52. ..................... accelerated the dismantling of the License Raj, reversing
the socialist policies of Rajiv Gandhi's government.
Correct : A. narasimha rao
53. ........................employed Dr.Manmohan Singh as his Finance Minister to embark on
historic economic transition.
Correct : B. narasimha rao
54. With .................... mandate, Dr.Manmohan Singh launched India’s
globalisation angle of the reforms that implemented the International Monetary Fund (IMF) policies to rescue the almost bankrupt nation from economic collapse.
Correct : B. narasimha rao's
55. ....................... was referred to as Chanakya for his ability to steer tough economic and
political legislation through the parliament at a time when he headed a minority government.
Correct : A. narasimha rao
56. 11th President of India .................... described Rao as a "patriotic statesman who
believed that the nation is bigger than the political system".
Correct : B. apj abdul kalam
57. ................... was an Indian economist who served as the Prime Minister of
India from 2004 to 2014.
Correct : A. manmohan singh
58. ..........................was the first prime minister of India
Correct : A. jawaharlal nehru
59. In 1991, as India faced a severe economic crisis, newly elected Prime
Minister ................... Rao surprisingly inducted the apolitical Singh into his cabinet as Finance Minister.
Correct : A. p. v. narasimha rao
60. The Chipko movement was started by Mr. Sundarlal Bahuguna in Tehri-Garhwal
district of .................against ruthless felling of trees and destruction of forests by contractors.
Correct : A. uttaranchal
61. To implement their political line, the rebel CPM leaders launched a peasant
uprising in the small Naxalbari area of northern.....................
Correct : A. west bengal
62. There is another parallel movement in the South ‘the Apiko Movement’ the
western Ghats of ..................started by Medha Patekar.
Correct : A. karnataka
63. After the Allahabad High Court verdict, ...............gave the call for a “Total
Revolution”
Correct : A. jayaprakash narayan
64. The Khalistan movement aimed to create a separate ........................ country.
Correct : A. sikh
65. Narmada Bachao Andolan, with its leading spokespersons Medha Patkar and Baba
Amte, received the Right Livelihood Award in..................
Correct : C. 1991
66. The Narmada flows from Amarkantak in ................and after long journey, ends up in
the Arabian Sea.
Correct : A. madhya pradesh
67. In 1969, the Communist Party Marxist-Leninist (ML) was formed under the
leadership of.........................
Correct : A. charu majumdar
68. ..............................is considered as “the Gandhi of Independent India”.
Correct : A. jayaprakash narayan
69. In June 1984, during ................., Indira Gandhi ordered the Indian Army to attack the
Golden Temple and eliminate any insurgents, as it had been occupied by Sikh separatists who were allegedly stockpiling weaponOperation Blue Stars.
Correct : A. operation blue star
70. Rama Janma Bhoomi is the name given to the site that many Hindus believe to be the
birthplace of Rama, the..................... avatar of the Hindu deity Vishnu.
Correct : A. 7 th
71. In.................., the demolition of Babri Masjid by Hindu nationalists triggered
widespread Hindu-Muslim violence.
Correct : B. 1992
72. A ..........lawyer, Peter Beneson, founded Amnesty International (AI) in 1961.
Correct : C. british
73. ........................................ is a noted Kuchipudi and Bharatnatyam dancer.
Correct : A. mallika sarabhai
74. ................. has received the "French Palme D'or'', the highest civilian award of France.
Correct : A. mallika sarabhai
75. .Born to famous dancer Mrinalini Sarabhai and reputed space scientist Vikram
Sarabhai, ....................is a woman of many dimensions and talents.
Correct : A. mallika sarabhai
76. ........................... is an eminent Indian Bengali writer
Correct : A. mahasweta devi
77. .................is an eminent Indian Bengali writer, who has been studying and writing
incessantly about the life and struggles faced by the tribal communities in the states like Bihar, West Bengal, Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh.
Correct : D. mahasweta devi
78. .................... is a reputed Indian writer who was born in the year 1926 into a middle
class Bengali family at Dacca, which is located in present day Bangladesh.
Correct : D. mahasweta devi
79. Mahasweta Devi received her education from the prestigious Shantiniketan set up by
great Indian philosopher and thinker, Rabindranath Tagore that went on to become a part of the Visva Bharti University later on.
Correct : D. mahasweta devi
80. ............................passed the Matriculation examination from Labhpur Jadablal H. E.
School in 1916 and was later admitted first to St. Xavier's College, Calcutta and then to South Suburban College.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
81. In 1932, .............................met Rabindranath Tagore at Santiniketan for the first time.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
82. .............................’s first novel Chaitali Ghurni was published on the same year.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
83. In 1942, ......................presided over the Birbhum District Literature Conferenceand
became the president of the Anti-Fascist Writers and Artists Association in Bengal.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
84. In 1944, .........................presided over the Kanpur Bengali Literature Conference
arranged by the non-resident Bengalis living there.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
85. In 1947, ................inaugurated Prabasi Banga Sahitya Sammelan held in Calcutta.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
86. In 1955, ..................was awarded the Rabindra Puraskar by theGovernment of West
Bengal.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
87. In 1959, ..................received the Jagattarini Gold Medal from the University of
Calcutta, and presided over All India Writer's Conference in Madras.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
88. .......................... ‘s historical novel Ganna Begum is an attempt worth mentioning for
its traditional values.
Correct : A. tarasankar bandyopadhyay
89. ..................... was an Indian Bengali filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest
filmmakers of the 20th century.
Correct : B. satyajit ray
90. .......................'s first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes,
including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the1956 Cannes Film Festival .
Correct : B. satyajit ray
91. In 1948, ........................wrote his first play Kalo sayar (The Dark Lake) and
participated in a revival of the landmark play Nabanna.
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
92. In 1951, ........................joined the Indian People's Theatre Association (IPTA).
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
93. In the early 1970s, ..................wrote and directed his last play Jwala (The
Burning).
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
94. The music director was Darbar Bhaduri, who was called by ................'Dada' or 'Guru."
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
95. .....................'s first commercial release was Ajantrik (1958), a comedy-drama film
with science fiction themes.
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
96. ....................'s greatest commercial success as a script writer was
for Madhumati (1958), one of the earliest films to deal with the theme of reincarnation.
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
97. .................moved briefly to Pune in 1966, where he taught at the Film and Television
Institute of India (FTII).
Correct : B. ritwik ghatak
98. Bagalar Banga Darshan (1964) is an incomplete Bengali film created by legendary
filmmaker.............................
Correct : A. ritwik ghatak.
99. ......................... is an Indian film director, in the Kannada cinema, and one of the
pioneers of the Parallel Cinema.
Correct : A. girish kasaravalli
100. ...................... was born in Kesalur, a village in the Tirthahalli taluk
in Shimoga district on 3 December 1950 to Ganesh Rao, an agriculturist, as well as a freedom fighter, and Lakshmidevi, a homemaker, one of 10 children (five brothers and four sisters).